Build an AI Opponent for Discord Activities – Intro
Have you ever wondered how NPCs and bots in games make decisions? How do they seem to "think" or play strategically—even when there's no human behind the scenes? In this blog series, we’ll take a deep dive into creating your own AI-powered opponent for a turn-based board game—specifically designed to run inside Discord Activities. Our goal is to create an opponent for turn-based board games that makes strategic decisions, learns from its experiences, and [...]
AI-Powered Image Search Engine with Amazon Bedrock: A Comprehensive Guide
Because of the ubiquity and accessibility of digital cameras - and I'll bet you're holding one in your hand right now, baked into your mobile phone - we as a generation take more pictures than ever before in the history of the human race. According to PhoTutorial, it is estimated that humanity nowadays takes 3.7 million photos per minute1. That translates to an impressive 162 billion images monthly2, if your mind has not been [...]
GCP Professional Cloud Architect Exam Study Guide
Bookmarks Study Materials GCP Services to Focus on Validate Your Knowledge The Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect certification validates the ability to design, develop, and manage comprehensive cloud solutions using Google Cloud technologies. This certification is intended for individuals who can leverage deep knowledge of cloud architecture and Google Cloud services to create robust, secure, scalable, and highly available systems that align with business objectives. A Professional [...]
AI-102 Microsoft Azure AI Engineer Associate Exam Study Path
Bookmarks Study Materials Azure Services to Focus On Final Remarks Validate Your Knowledge The AI-102 Microsoft Azure AI Engineer Associate certification exam is designed for individuals with experience designing, developing, and deploying AI solutions on Microsoft Azure. The exam will assess your technical abilities in implementing solutions leveraging various Azure AI services based on specific requirements. Prior experience in software development, data science, or AI solution building [...]
Exploring the OpenAI Codex CLI: A Hands-On Guide
In an era where speed and agility define the developer experience, the Codex CLI from OpenAI emerges as a landmark innovation. Building on the revolutionary capabilities of the Codex models, this lightweight tool brings powerful AI coding assistance directly into the terminal. It empowers developers to prototype, generate, and test ideas in seconds—without ever needing a full IDE setup. The Codex CLI isn't just a tool; it's a statement about the future of developer [...]
Cloud-9.6: Getting Started with WordPress Dashboard
Hey, this is Step 6 of our 9-step website portfolio building with AWS! Got lost? Click here to go to the main article, and here for the fifth step! WordPress is one of the most powerful and best-used platforms on the market for web construction and management. It's a content management system (CMS) that gives users everything they need to build, modify, and manage websites without necessarily requiring technical know-how. As much as WordPress [...]
Building AI the Smart Way: Start with Gemini 2.5 Flash
Companies are under constant pressure to stay ahead of the competition while keeping costs low and performance high. AI development is no exception—developers struggle to strike the perfect balance between speed, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. With AI models growing more complex, teams are often overwhelmed by the challenges of scaling their applications without sacrificing quality or running into budget constraints. The Gemini 2.5 Flash steps in. Google's breakthrough AI model is here to solve these [...]
From Alert Fatigue to Intelligent Response: Using AWS Bedrock for Incident Management
3 AM Again? Transform Your On-Call Experience with AWS Bedrock Incident Response It's 3 AM, your phone buzzes with another CloudWatch alert, and you're frantically trying to understand what went wrong with limited context. Sound familiar? Usually, cloud operations teams face this overwhelming challenge daily: alerts that lack context, information scattered across multiple systems, and the constant pressure to resolve incidents quickly. Fortunately, AWS Bedrock incident response capabilities now offer a revolutionary solution to [...]
Model Context Protocol: The Universal Connector for AI
Imagine that you are at an international conference where all of the wise minds from around the world are together. They all want to share their new and inspiring ideas to everyone. But there is just one tiny problem: everyone speaks a different language, and only limited translators are going around. It is frustrating, right? To almost have access to vast amounts of knowledge but also limited to how you can communicate. Well, [...]
Upscaling Amazon EC2 Instance Performance: A Comprehensive Guide to Vertical Scaling for Improved Application Availability
It’s a scenario that no website owner wants to face: your website, which has been running smoothly for months, suddenly goes down. Panic sets in as users can’t access your services, and business slows down drastically. In my case, the traffic to my website spiked unexpectedly, and my EC2 instance could no longer handle the load. I realized that the only solution to get my site back up and running was to scale my [...]